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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 386415" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>How frustrating!!</p><p> </p><p>Marg has excellent ideas. Maybe you could meet the teacher at church to discuss this? Sometimes neutral ground helps. I would start cc'ing the sp ed teacher and the principal. They need to know what is going on if the teacher needs encouragement or retraining to help difficult child. So often the teachers read the BIP, IEP, etc... and the ideas seem fine then, but they forget them or get caught up in other issues and don't take the time to remember how to best help each individual student. As taht is part of their job, albeit a difficult part, the polite, kowtowing reminders are an excellent idea. </p><p> </p><p>It might even help if you could work through some of the methods of helping difficult child at a time when she doesn't have a class full of other students to teach. She may get overwhelmed or have similar memory/processing issues as your son, and have a hard time seeing past her problems to how to help him with his in the heat of the moment.</p><p> </p><p>It also helps to remember that a little bit of honey goes a LONG way toward having a teacher WANT to go that extra bit to help our kids. Teaching isn't easy, esp during the junior high years/middle school years. So if you can send her an interesting or uplifting book/card, or plate of cookies or homemade granola or something, she will think more kindly to you and your child. You may have to deliver it yourself as kids are less likely to want to and to remember to deliver gifts to teachers. Your son also might be afraid of getting teased if he does that. </p><p> </p><p>If nohting else maybe for Halloween you could send in something for the class. If not food, maybe pick up some fake vampire teeth? I went to a big party warehouse type place and got a bag of a couple of hundred of them and they were a big hit with the teachers and kids. His computer teacher esp loved them because the kids were quieter with them in AND they didn't pose a crumb and spill risk to the computers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 386415, member: 1233"] How frustrating!! Marg has excellent ideas. Maybe you could meet the teacher at church to discuss this? Sometimes neutral ground helps. I would start cc'ing the sp ed teacher and the principal. They need to know what is going on if the teacher needs encouragement or retraining to help difficult child. So often the teachers read the BIP, IEP, etc... and the ideas seem fine then, but they forget them or get caught up in other issues and don't take the time to remember how to best help each individual student. As taht is part of their job, albeit a difficult part, the polite, kowtowing reminders are an excellent idea. It might even help if you could work through some of the methods of helping difficult child at a time when she doesn't have a class full of other students to teach. She may get overwhelmed or have similar memory/processing issues as your son, and have a hard time seeing past her problems to how to help him with his in the heat of the moment. It also helps to remember that a little bit of honey goes a LONG way toward having a teacher WANT to go that extra bit to help our kids. Teaching isn't easy, esp during the junior high years/middle school years. So if you can send her an interesting or uplifting book/card, or plate of cookies or homemade granola or something, she will think more kindly to you and your child. You may have to deliver it yourself as kids are less likely to want to and to remember to deliver gifts to teachers. Your son also might be afraid of getting teased if he does that. If nohting else maybe for Halloween you could send in something for the class. If not food, maybe pick up some fake vampire teeth? I went to a big party warehouse type place and got a bag of a couple of hundred of them and they were a big hit with the teachers and kids. His computer teacher esp loved them because the kids were quieter with them in AND they didn't pose a crumb and spill risk to the computers. [/QUOTE]
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